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| US-ARTS Summary Monday, May 27, 2013 03:44 PM PDT High hopes for Latin American art auction amid buoyant market NEW YORK (Reuters) - Art experts are hoping strong interest from Asian buyers and a buoyant market, sparked by a record-breaking sale of contemporary art earlier this month, will boost two Latin American auctions in New York this week. A bronze sculpture of a dancing couple by Colombian Fernando Botero and paintings by Mexican Alfredo Ramos Martinez, Chilean Roberto Matta and Brazilian Candido Portinari are expected to be the highlights of the sales at Christie's and Sotheby's. ... Full Story | Top |
| High hopes for Latin American art auction amid buoyant market Monday, May 27, 2013 03:44 PM PDT  By Walker Simon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Art experts are hoping strong interest from Asian buyers and a buoyant market, sparked by a record-breaking sale of contemporary art earlier this month, will boost two Latin American auctions in New York this week. A bronze sculpture of a dancing couple by Colombian Fernando Botero and paintings by Mexican Alfredo Ramos Martinez, Chilean Roberto Matta and Brazilian Candido Portinari are expected to be the highlights of the sales at Christie's and Sotheby's. Earlier this month the auction houses had blockbuster sales of Impressionist and contemporary art. ... Full Story | Top |
| CA-ENTERTAINMENT Summary Monday, May 27, 2013 01:38 PM PDT 'Fast & Furious 6' races to biggest opening for Universal Pics LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The action-packed sixth installment of the "Fast & Furious" film franchise claimed victory at the North American box office for the three-day U.S. Memorial Day weekend on Monday, and became the biggest opening film in Universal Pictures' history. "Fast & Furious 6," starring Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, grossed an estimated $120 million from Friday till Monday, making it the second-biggest film opening of the year behind Disney's "Iron Man 3's" $175.3 million earlier this month. ... Full Story | Top |
| US-FILM Summary Monday, May 27, 2013 01:38 PM PDT 'Fast & Furious 6' races to biggest opening for Universal Pics LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The action-packed sixth installment of the "Fast & Furious" film franchise claimed victory at the North American box office for the three-day U.S. Memorial Day weekend on Monday, and became the biggest opening film in Universal Pictures' history. "Fast & Furious 6," starring Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, grossed an estimated $120 million from Friday till Monday, making it the second-biggest film opening of the year behind Disney's "Iron Man 3's" $175.3 million earlier this month. ... Full Story | Top |
| 'Fast & Furious 6' races to biggest opening for Universal Pics Monday, May 27, 2013 01:38 PM PDT  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The action-packed sixth installment of the "Fast & Furious" film franchise claimed victory at the North American box office for the three-day U.S. Memorial Day weekend on Monday, and became the biggest opening film in Universal Pictures' history. "Fast & Furious 6," starring Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, grossed an estimated $120 million from Friday till Monday, making it the second-biggest film opening of the year behind Disney's "Iron Man 3's" $175.3 million earlier this month. The film also rang up an estimated $300 million at the global box ... Full Story | Top |
| Readers of German mass daily Bild to pay for some online content Monday, May 27, 2013 12:13 PM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - Readers of Germany's best-selling daily, Bild, will have to pay for some online content from mid-June, an executive at Axel Springer said on Monday, as the company fights against an era of "free beer for everyone". Bild's website will adopt a so-called "freemium model", with some content remaining free while items such as exclusive interviews, stories and photos will be subject to a charge. Bild sold 2.46 million copies each day in the first quarter, down from 2.67 million a day last year and well below the 4.51 million copies sold each day in 1998. ... Full Story | Top |
| Viennese artist and convicted pedophile Otto Muehl dies Monday, May 27, 2013 07:30 AM PDT VIENNA (Reuters) - Otto Muehl, one of Austria's most provocative artists who was jailed for sexual offences against minors in 1991, died on Sunday aged 87, the Austria Press Agency said. He was best known as a co-founder of Viennese Actionism, an avant-garde movement that caused outrage with its graphic images of paint-daubed, naked bodies, blood and violence. Like other participants in the movement - including Guenter Brus, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolf Schwarzkogler - Muehl served a short prison sentence in the 1960s for violating decency laws. ... Full Story | Top |
| Angelina Jolie's aunt dies of breast cancer Sunday, May 26, 2013 09:47 PM PDT (Reuters) - Angelina Jolie's aunt died of breast cancer on Sunday, a hospital spokesman in California said, nearly two weeks after the actress wrote about electing to have a double mastectomy after learning she had inherited a high risk of breast cancer. Debbie Martin, the younger sister of Jolie's mother, died at age 61 at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido, near San Diego. Her husband, Ron Martin, told Britain's Sky News that his wife had the same defective BRCA1 gene as Jolie. Jolie's mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of breast cancer in 2007 at age 56. ... Full Story | Top |
| French lesbian love story wins top prize at Cannes Sunday, May 26, 2013 09:45 PM PDT  By Belinda Goldsmith and Alexandria Sage CANNES (Reuters) - An intimate lesbian love story by French director Abdellatif Kechiche won the top prize in Cannes on Sunday, and the film festival's director immediately urged the large crowds protesting against gay marriage in Paris to go and see it. "La Vie d'Adele - Chapitre 1 & 2" (Blue is the Warmest Colour) was chosen from a field of 20 films exploring sex, violence and emotional anguish which were vying for the Palme d'Or, one of the most coveted film awards after the Oscars. ... Full Story | Top |
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